Timothy Donald Rice

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Responding to a call of an attempted suicide, police arrived at an apartment complex in the 2200 block Willow Creek Drive in Southeast Austin at 9 a.m. July 24 to find Timothy Rice with what appeared to be self-inflicted wounds, police said. When the officers confronted Rice, he threatened them with a tomahawk, police said. One officer shot him with a bean-bag shotgun, they said, and a Taser was later used on him during a struggle with officers. Austin-Travis County EMS took Rice to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where he was pronounced dead the following afternoon, police said.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Timothy Donald Rice, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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